View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was discovered in the same orbit as Shola's rings?

2. What does Cal tell her when she picks him up?

3. What is the best scenario the ground crew can reasonably hope for?

4. What is the name of the shuttle that Hutch pilots and Richard hitches a ride on?

5. What strength will the earthquakes that follow the explosions be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What issue does Richard want Hutch's help with, and why did he want Hutch to transmit it?

2. What is the end result of Maggie's push to recover the two chases at all costs?

3. What is Maggie doing on board the Wincklemann?

4. What is the basic point of the myth told in the friezes?

5. How is the team from Kosmik spending the countdown to terraforming time that remains?

6. What information does David Emory convey via downlink hologram?

7. What issue does the Boston Globe bemoan?

8. When Richard asks Caseway to delay the schedule for terraforming Quraqua, what does Caseway admit that horrifies Richard?

9. Why had the excavation of the Lower Temple been so important?

10. What is the basic topography of Quraqua?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Hutch realize after studying all of the figures and locations that are related to the discontinuities? Who does she share this information with first? What does she think they can accomplish? Why is she so sure that her plan will work, and how much time do they have to accomplish their task? What questions will this answer if it works?

Essay Topic 2

Who were the Monument Makers? What evidence of their existence is found by those exploring space afterward? What mystery surrounds their existence? What did they look like, and how do those who follow much later come to this conclusion? What similarities were discovered in monuments on Quraquat and on Iapetus? What conclusions were drawn as a result of this discovery?

Essay Topic 3

What equipment do Hutch and Frank request from Melanie and the Catherine Perch? Who approves the equipment loan and what will it be used for? What else is loaned other than equipment? What ship do Hutch and Frank have access to, and who grants them permission to do so? How long after the Catherine Perch arrives did this ship come? What is the second ship's original mandate?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 955 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample